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WOW! Women On Writing announces Linda Hubalek's blog tour!
Blog Tour dates:
May 9, 2011 - June 2, 2011
Come and join the fun! Meet Linda and visit her fabulous blog hostesses.
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The blog tour we bring you today is unlike any we've hosted before. It's the first time we're hosting a book series, and it's our first Kindle tour! Considering the amazing opportunities the platform offers it's not too surprising many authors are reviving their print titles into eBooks and targeting a new audience. And that's exactly what Linda Hubalek is doing with her Trail of Thread series, which first published in '95 and now is available in multiple eBook platforms, including the Kindle and the Nook.
In today's interview, Linda talks about her decision to self-publish, shares some tips on setting up your own publishing company, and reveals the inspiration behind her series. [Linda has three separate book series with three books in each series. She's also working on her fourth!]
Stop by The Muffin today and leave a comment or ask a question for a chance to win all three ebooks in the Trail of Thread series! For an extra entry, link to the post on Twitter with the hashtag #TrailOfThread. The giveaway contest closes this Thursday, May 12th at 11:59 PM, PST. We will announce the winner in the comments section the following day, Friday May 13th.
Bloggers: If you'd like to host Linda on your blog, please e-mail us with your request, or reply to this email. Also, be sure to check out our upcoming tours in the sections below.
~ Angela, Jodi, and Robyn ~ (Your Hostesses)
** Feel free to copy any part of this e-mail and share it on your own blog or in your newsletter. |
 Linda Hubalek's sixth grade teacher assigned her to write the traditional paper on what she wanted to be when she grew up, but Linda had an untraditional answer. She didn't want to be a nurse, teacher, or mom. She wanted to be a farmer! Her dream came true when she graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Agriculture/Horticulture, and went on to spend years doing agronomy research, and eventually started her own business, Prairie Flower Creations. Much like her own ancestors who headed West, Linda found herself in California tending a cement garden and longing for the fields of Kansas. Lind "visited" her beloved Kansas by writing the Trail of Thread series about Kansas pioneer women.  | | Esther and Emily |
Although Linda is back in Kansas (growing bison this time, not prairie flowers), she's still writing about Kansas women. Her fourth series, the Kansas Quilter series, will be released later this year. Find out more about Linda by visiting her websites: Author website: www.LindaHubalek.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/lindahubalekbooks Blog: www.LindaHubalek.com/feed/rss |
| About the Trail of Thread series |
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3 Book Series: Trail of Thread, Thimble of Soil, and Stitch of Courage
By Linda K. Hubalek
The Trail of Thread series includes three books based on the lives of the author's ancestors. Each book, told from the viewpoint of a pioneer woman through letters she writes to those "back home," tells the tale of a family moving from the settled East to the wilds of the newly opened territory of Kansas in the mid 1850s. The first book, Trail of Thread, tells of life on the trail West as a family makes the cross country journey from Kentucky to Kansas. The second book, Thimble of Soil, is the story of a widow and her children traveling from Ohio to Kansas and trying to establish a home amidst the skirmishes that riddled Kansas, as the slave state and free state supporters battled over the fate of the Kansas territory. The last book, Stitch ofCourage, takes place during the Civil War
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years and tells of the marriage between the two families portrayed in books one and two and how the war was fought in the West. These books are written in letter form, covering the years 1854 to 1865. Twelve quilt patterns are featured in each book of this series. The books are available as eBooks for Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, or for Kobobook's Kobo. You can also order autographed paperback books through BisonFarmGiftShop.com.
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Do you want to participate in our blog partnership program?
If you'd like to host Linda or one of our upcoming authors on your blog, Email Jodi & Robyn with your request.
If you're an author interested in promoting your latest book with WOW! Women On Writing Blog Tours please email us for more info.
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| Let's Kick Off the Blog Tour! |
May 9, Monday (today!) @ The Muffin: Stop by for an interview and book giveaway! http://muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com/May 10, Tuesday @ Writers Inspired: Learn about "Writing Fiction Based on Factual Events" from historical fiction auithor Linda K. Hubalek. You can also win an ebook from Linda's first series about pioneer women, Trail of Thread. http://writerinspired.wordpress.com/May 12, Thursday @ Aunt Pitty Pat's: Have you ever wondered about the life of pioneer women? Linda K. Hubalek, author of four historical fiction series about pioneer women, will be giving readers the facts. She'll also be giving away an ebook of Trail of Thread, a book about Kansas, quilting, and family. http://auntpittypats.blogspot.com/ May 13, Friday @ Fresh Fiction: Stop by today to learn a bit more about historical novelist Linda Hubalek and enter to win a copy of Trail of Thread! http://freshfiction.com/ May 16, Monday @ Lori's Reading Corner: Stop by for a surprise guest post and the chance to win an ebook from Linda's Trail of Thread series. http://www.lorisreadingcorner.com/ May 18, Wednesday @ Cathy C.'s Hall of Fame: Will you inspire your descendants? Historical novelist Linda Hubalek writes about how her ancestors inspired her series Trail of Thread and gives away an e-copy! http://www.cathychall.blogspot.com/May 19, Thursday @ The Book Tree: Stop by for a book review of Trail of Thread today! http://thebooktree.blogspot.com/ May 23, Monday @ Caroline Clemmons: Caroline reviews Trail of Thread by Linda K. Hubalek today. But don't forget to come back on Wednesday for an interview and a chance to win one of her books! http://carolineclemmons.blogspot.com/May 24, Tuesday @ Quilting Gallery: Linda tells us about how quilting is intertwined in her historical series. She's also giving away an e-copy of Trail of Thread. http://quiltinggallery.com/May 25, Wednesday @ Caroline Clemmons: Stop by for an interview with historical fiction author Linda Hubalek and a chance to win an e-copy of her book! http://carolineclemmons.blogspot.com/ June 2, Thursday @ Books, Books, The Magical Fruit: Learn more about Linda Hubalek, author of the Trail of Thread historical series, as well as three other historical series. Also, enter to win an ebook copy of Trail of Thread. http://booksbooksthemagicalfruit.blogspot.com/We have more dates to come, so be sure to check out our Events Calendar HERE.
If you have a blog and would like to host Linda Hubalek, please e-mail us with your request and link to your blog.
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Want to host one of our touring authors?
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 Upcoming Author Tours: If you have a blog or website and would like to host one of our authors below, we are still accepting a few choice blogs to participate in our Partnership Program.
Come and join the fun! Please email Jodi & Robyn at blogtour@wow-womenonwriting.com and put "Blog Tour Partnership" in the subject line. Please tell us the author you are interested in and your available dates. We'll get back to you with the details if you are accepted. We look forward to hearing from you!
Content for your blog: All of our touring authors are available for interviews, or they will provide a guest post on a topic related to the writing process or their book. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Tour Dates: May 30, 2011 - June 24, 2011
Title: Megan's Way
Author: Melissa Foster
Genre: Fiction Synopsis: What would you give up for the people you love? When Megan Taylor, a single mother and artist, receives the shocking news that her cancer has returned, she'll be faced with the most difficult decision she's ever had to make. She'll endure an emotional journey, questioning her own moral and ethical values, and the decisions she'd made long ago. The love she has for her daughter, Olivia, and her closest friends, will be stretched and frayed. Meanwhile, fourteen-year-old Olivia's world is falling apart right before her eyes, and there's nothing she can do about it. She finds herself acting in ways she cannot even begin to understand. When her internal struggles turn to dangerous behavior, her life will hang in the balance. Megan's closest friends are caught in a tangled web of deceit. Each must figure out how, and if, they can expose their secrets, or forever be haunted by their pasts.
Participate! Please email us with "Blog Tour Partnership" in the subject line and your available dates. We schedule 2-3 stops per week from September 30th - June 24th. You will receive a copy of Megan's Way by Melissa Foster. We look forward to hearing from you!-----
 Tour Dates: July 5, 2011 - August 5, 2011
Title: Chasing Amanda
Author: Melissa Foster
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: Nine years ago, Molly Tanner witnessed a young girl's abduction in the busy city of Philadelphia, shifting her occasional clairvoyance into overdrive. Two days later, the girl's body was found, and Molly's life fell apart. Consumed by guilt for not acting upon her visions, and on the brink of losing her family, Molly escaped the torturous reminders in the city, fleeing to the safety of the close-knit rural community of Boyds, Maryland. Molly's life is back on track, her son has begun college, and she and her husband have finally rekindled their relationship. Their fresh start is shattered when a seven-year-old girl disappears from a local park near Molly's home. Unable to turn her back on another child and troubled by memories of the past, Molly sets out to find her, jeopardizing the marriage she'd fought so hard to hold together. While unearthing clues and struggling to decipher her visions, Molly discovers another side of Boyds, where the residents--and the land itself--hold potentially lethal secrets, and exposes another side of her husband, one that threatens to tear them apart. Participate! Please email us with "Blog Tour Partnership" in the subject line and your available dates. We schedule 2-3 stops per week from July 5th - August 5th. You will receive a copy of Chasing Amanda by Melissa Foster. We look forward to hearing from you!-----  About the Author:
Melissa Foster is the founder of the Women's Nest, a social and support community for women. Melissa has written a column featured in Women Business Owners Magazine, and has painted and donated several murals to The Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC. Melissa is currently working on her next novel and collaborating with a director to create a script for Megan's Way. Melissa's interests include her family, reading, writing, painting, friends, and helping women see the positive side of life. Although Melissa lives with her family in Maryland she uses ever and anything as an excuse to visit one of her favorite spots: Cape Cod.
Author's Websites: http://melissafoster.com/http://www.thewomensnest.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Tour Dates: June 6, 2011 - July 1, 2011
Title: Leaving the Hall Lights On
Author: Madeline Sharples
Genre: Memoir
Synopsis: Leaving the Hall Light On is about living after loss. It's about finding peace and balance and various ways the author, Madeline Sharples, finds to bring herself together after feeling so helpless and out of control during her son Paul's 7-year struggle with bipolar disease and after his suicide in September 1999.
Sharples explains: "I write about the steps I took in living with the loss of my son, including making use of diversions to help me forget. Leaving the Hall Light On is also about the milestones I met toward living a full life without him: packing and giving away his clothes, demolishing and redoing the scene of his death, cataloging and packing away all his records and books, copying all of his original music compositions onto CDs, digitizing all of our family photos, and gutting his room and turning it into my office and sanctuary with a bay window that looks out toward a lush garden and a bubbling water fountain."Participate! Please email us with "Blog Tour Partnership" in the subject line and your available dates. We schedule 2-3 stops per week from June 6th - July 1st. You will receive a copy of Leaving the Hall Lights On by Madeline Sharples. We look forward to hearing from you!-----  About the Author:
Although Madeline Sharples worked most of her professional life as a technical writer and editor, grant writer, and proposal manager, she fell in love with poetry and creative writing in grade school. She pursued her writing interests to high school while studying journalism and writing for the high school newspaper, and she studied journalism in college. However, she only began to fulfill her dream to be a professional writer late in her life. She co-authored a book about women in nontraditional professions called Blue-Collar Women: Trailblazing Women Take on Men-Only Jobs (New Horizon Press, 1994) and co-edited the poetry anthology, T he Great American Poetry Show, Volumes 1 (Muse Media, 2004) and 2 (August 2010). She wrote the poems for two photography books, The Emerging Goddess and Intimacy (Paul Blieden, photographer). She is pleased that many of her poems have appeared online and in print magazines in the last few years. Madeline's memoir, Leaving the Hall Light On, about how she and her family survived her older son's suicide, as a result of his bipolar disorder, will be released by Lucky Press LLC on Mother's Day 2011. She and her husband of 40 years live in Manhattan Beach, California, a small beach community south of Los Angeles. Her younger son Ben lives in Santa Monica, California with his bride Marissa.
Author's Websites: http://www.madelinesharples.com/ http://madeline40.blogspot.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Tour Dates: June 27, 2011 - July 29, 2011
Title: My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas
Author: Tracy Seeley
Genre: Memoir
Synopsis: Sure, there's no place like home--but what if you can't really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father's dreams of movie stardom, stoked by a series of affairs, kept the family on edge, and on the move, until he up and left. Thirty years later, settled in what seems like a charmed life in San Francisco, a diagnosis of cancer and the betrayal of a lover shake Seeley to her roots--roots she is suddenly determined to search out. My Ruby Slippers tells the story of that search, the tale of a woman with an impassioned if vague sense of mission: to find the meaning of home. Participate! Please email us with "Blog Tour Partnership" in the subject line and your available dates. We schedule 2-3 stops per week from June 27th - July 29th. You will receive a copy of My Ruby Slippers by Tracy Seeley. We look forward to hearing from you!-----  About the Author:
Tracy Seeley's first two sentences were "I go out" and "I can't tell you," foretelling a life of adventure and mystery. Or at least a lot of moving around. By last count, she'd claimed 26 different addresses, half of those before she was nine. She grew up mostly in Wichita, Kansas, a few blocks from the Arkansas River. (That's pronounced Ar-KAN-sas). After high school in Wichita, college in Dallas and graduate school in Austin, where she finished a Ph.D. in British Lit, she taught at Yale for five years before hoofin' it west to San Francisco in 1993. And there, for the most part, she's stayed. Except for a semester in Caracas, a semester in Barcelona, a semester in Budapest, and three years living half-time in L.A. Oh, and after 17 years of living in The City, recently moving to Oakland. She's been at the University of San Francisco since 1993, teaching literature and creative nonfiction. There, she has won the Distinguished Teaching Award and the College Service Award, and spent a year as the NEH Chair in Humanities, during which time she began writing My Ruby Slippers. In addition to teaching, she is the co-director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and runs a program for supporting faculty writing. So she spends a lot of time organizing writing groups, salons and workshops, determined to change writing from a solitary to a community activity. In the midst of it all, and above all, she's raised two smart and darkly witty daughters who now live too far away. For the moment, Tracy lives in Oakland with her husband Frederick Marx, a filmmaker. There, she grows vegetables, writes, grades papers, and hangs out on her stoop, talking to neighbors. She is plotting to acquire some backyard chickens. She figures if she gets chickens, she'll never have to move again. Author's Website: http://tracyseeley.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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We hope you'll join us on Linda Hubalek's book blog tour for the Trail of Thread series. It will be a fantastic journey! We'd love for you all to get involved and join us in a virtual vacation. Take a trip across the globe by participating in this tour. Each stop shares a different point of view, a new topic, and has its own unique voice. We'd love to hear yours too, so come along for the ride, and we'll be looking for your comments!
And don't forget to visit The Muffin today and comment for a chance to win a copy of Linda Hubalek's historical series Trail of Thread!
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